| Date of Birth | 23-April-1902 | |
| Place of Birth |
Reykjavik (Iceland, Europe, Capital Region) |
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| Nationality | Iceland | |
| Also know as | Halldor Laxness, Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor Kiljan Gudjonsson, Halldór Guðjónsson | |
| Profession | Writer | |
| Halldór Kiljan Laxness was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Throughout his career Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences on his writings include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. | ||
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